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Christianity and Other Faiths; An Essay in Comparative Religion
Christianity and Other Faiths An Essay in Comparative Religion Author:William St. Clair Tisdall General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1912 Original Publisher: Revell Subjects: Christianity and other religions Religion / General Religion / Comparative Religion Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Christianity / General Notes: This is a blac... more »k and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II Religion and Religions : Universality of Religion THE various religions of the world differ so much from one another that the favourite modern and pseudo-liberal idea that they all mean very much the same thing, that all alike lead in different ways to the same goal -- a purely Hindu view, by the way -- is entirely due to ignorance and carelessness. Of course they have some points in common with one another, since they are religions, not philosophies. In a sense, it may be said that they have the same aim, because they all seek to please the Deity or deities whom they acknowledge. They have certain tenets in common, such as belief in an After-life of some kind ; though these common beliefs are much fewer than they are often said to be. But, on the other hand, the differences between the various religions of the world regarding the nature of the Deity, and concerning the worship which should be offered to Him, are abysmal. People nowadays speak as if the fact that all religions alike aim at the attainment of salvation in some sense made it a matter of indifference to which a man belongs, provided he is in earnest -- as most of those who speak in this way are not -- in religious matters. There are two fallacies here which should be exposed. As to oneness of aim: we must not forget that the medieval method of pouring boiling oil into gunshot wounds had e...« less